A Minnesota man has avoided a long prison sentence after admitting to his involvement in a fatal hit-and-run.
Jose Hernandez Pineda, 47, pleaded guilty to criminal vehicular homicide on Aug. 17 and was sentenced Monday to 360 days in jail, which the judge allowed to be served at home with an electronic monitor, to be followed by five years’ probation. He received credit for 55 days served. The sentencing came in connection with the hit-and-run death of 31-year-old Abdul Bakr Jafar, who was found lying on the side of a road in Maplewood, Minnesota, around 4:30 a.m. on Sept. 26, 2025.
Jafar was pronounced dead at the scene, and a witness saw a dark-colored van “speed off” down the road, according to a probable cause statement reviewed by Law&Crime…